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Book reviews
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Nobody Hurt In Small Earthquake – Michael Green
Towards The End Of The Morning – Michael Frayn
A Crooked Sixpence – Murray Sayle
Monday Mourning – Kathy Reichs
The Group – Mary McCarthy
Fear And Loathing In Fitzrovia – Paul Willetts
The Daughter Of Time – Josephine Tey
The Man Who Wasn’t There: A Life Of Ernest Hemingway – Richard Bradford
The Maltese Falcon — Dashiell Hammett
Hemingway: The Postwar Years And The Posthumous Novels – Rose Marie Burwell
To Have And Have Not - Ernest Hemingway
Hemingway: a biography — Mary Dearborn
The True Gen - Denis Brian
For Whom The Bell Tolls - Ernest Hemingway
Running With Bulls — Valerie Hemingway
The Sea — John Banville
Mrs Hemingway — Naomi Wood
Saturday — Ian McEwan
Berlin Game — Len Deighton
Decline And Fall — Evelyn Waugh
The Colour — Rose Tremain
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Film reviews
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Once Upon A Time In The West
Mulholland Drive
The Gentlemen
A Time To Kill
The Irishman
The Revenant
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Friday 18 March 2016
Cars, especially first cars, and chips off the old block: I hope my daughter isn’t as stupid as me
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About six or seven years in this blog when it was still a thing of fresh, juvenile enthusiasm and I hadn’t resorted to writing potted resumé...
Tuesday 15 March 2016
Will the last hack to leave the industry please put out the lights? And Germany’s AfD might be making strides, but I shouldn’t fear the jackboot quite yet
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I watched Spotlight the other night and liked it. So did the Oscars committee and awarded it Best Picture and Best Original Screenplay. It i...
Thursday 10 March 2016
Ignore this, if you like, just having a general whinge about this sodding itching which has beset me for these past five months
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I’ve got to say very little has been on my mind except looking forward to the day when this perpetual torso itching goes away. Writing it he...
Sunday 28 February 2016
You want a hero, look elsewhere
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I’ve long suspected that I would never have made hero (the past transitional conjunctive tense or whatever it is is appropriate here because...
Saturday 27 February 2016
What makes a short break in Rome not the pleasure it should be? Sodding chronic hives. At least Italy might win today’s Six Nations match against Scotland
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Rome I’m here nominally for tomorrow’s Italy v Scotland Six Nations match at the Olympic Stadium, but actually the game, although I am loo...
Friday 5 February 2016
Should we stay or should we go? Who knows and, to be frank, who cares? The way things are there might in time no longer be an EU to leave
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My apologies to anyone who happens to come across this blog - or even makes a point of visiting it - and who is from South Korea, Australia...
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Saturday 30 January 2016
All good things come in threes, and as this post is about harmony - well, roughly - here is a third collection of tracks you might like, all vaguely related
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As I’ve said before, these soundfiles should play fine on your Mac using Safari, Chrome and Firefox, and on a Windows PC using Internet Expl...
Thursday 28 January 2016
A bit more jazz for those who like that kind of thing. And those who don’t are banned from this blog for a week.
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These soundfiles should play fine on your Mac using Safari, Chrome and Firefox, and on a Windows PC using Internet Explorer, Chrome and Fire...
Friday 22 January 2016
New music and one way to come across it (though I'm sure there are many others. And if you have any jazz you can recommend, get in touch). Некоторые джаз для моих русских друзей.
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These soundfiles should play fine on your Mac using Safari, Chrome and Firefox, and on a Windows PC using Internet Explorer, Chrome and Fire...
Wednesday 20 January 2016
Ever wondered why ‘hat’ rhymes with ‘prat’? But what’s a little pink between friends? Can’t we settle for ‘light red’? Please?
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I don’t think anyone of my family, relatives, friends or acquaintances would describe me as a stylish man, and I must admit I have very litt...
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